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FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers

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Cricket: England’s miracle victory at Headingley Since Ben ...

John Turner, Michael Aldous Cambridge University Press, £25 W hy did Britain go from being one of the richest countries in the world at the end of the Victorian era to today being in the middle of the